Chucked a spark plug?

[Davejester]

Typical just MOTd the car and a week later boom. Driving along happy as Larry and it starts backfiring like a racecar and idling at like 3k. Luckily a was 2 secs away from home. Plugged my code reader in and nothing(eBay job)

Took the inlet off and bam one ht lead chowd to bits and the plug looks like it's come out.

Gonna wait till it cools and take the plug out. Anyone got the best course of action?

Regards

 

[Diagro]

get the Hole fixed with one of those coils? then new plug and lead would be my guess

 

[Ol’ Tarby]

Helicoil.

 

[Davejester]

Coils and plugs should be here tha morra, engines been tapping for a while, thought it was the tappets, so hopefully it's just come loose and not damages the threads.
Thanks for the replies guys
Regards

 

[Dan@SJM]

Don't use a helicoil. Find someone who uses timesert's. Best thing for the job

 

[Martin.]

Don't use a helicoil. Find someone who uses timesert's. Best thing for the job

Got them in mine and apparently the thread in one is a bit fucked since

 

[Davejester]

Yea been reading, helicoils are no good, timeserts are the way to go for future reference.

Anyways the plug nipped up so I may have been lucky. Changed the lead and put it all back together in between the rain and it's running fine, tapping noise is gone too I'll give it till the weekend and I'll check the plugs are still in there. Thanks for all your replies

Regards

 

[MrDave]

Keep your tools in the boot[emoji16]

 

[Davejester]

Petrol can and matches in the boot haha it's still running ok for now
Regards